2013 Chinese New Year Days for USA - Pacific Standard Time

The Chinese New Year Day is the new moon day of the first lunar
month of the lunar year, according to Chinese Lunar
calendar. The first lunar month is the second lunar month after the 11th lunar
month that contains Winter Solstice.

The
new moon day of different time zones might fall on the different day of western
Gregorian calendar. China Time Zone
(GMT+8) and US Pacific Standard Time (PST or GMT-8) Zone have 16 hours difference.
Therefore,
there are more than 50% chance that China and PST
time zones have different Chinese New Year days.

Chinese Lunar calendar uses 12 zodiac animal names, which are Rat, Cow ,Tiger
,Rabbit ,Dragon ,Snake ,Horse ,Sheep ,Monkey ,Chicken ,Dog and Pig, to name the lunar years. For
more information, please read Chinese New Year Days
and Zodiac Animals page.

The first day of the animal year is not the Chinese New Year Day.
The first day of the animal year is the day when Sun enters ecliptic 315 degree
position. This day is around February 4
of Gregorian calendar every year. This solar month is
called Tiger month, which is the first month of Chinese astrology calendar.

The following Chinese New Year Days is calculated based on US Pacific Standard time zone
(GMT-8),
which is west longitude 120 degree time. You can see zodiac color animal names
are in a cycle of 60 beginning from Green Wood Rat (1924 and 1984) and ending
with Black Water Pig.